USAF F-16s and Navy F/A-18s on Dec. 19 performed air strikes against anti-Iraqi forces in the vicinity of Salman Pak, Iraq, strafing the target and launching precision-guided munitions.
Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, celebrated the beddown of its full complement of F-35s with a ceremony just weeks after the base received the last of its 54 fighters. The arrival of those F-35s in mid-April gave Eielson the Air Force’s second fully-equipped, combat-coded F-35 wing, comprising two fighter squadrons.…